Please, people, cease and desist from your ongoing bleating and hee-hawing regarding "anti-semitism". You do not seem to understand that justly criticizing and holding responsible a national state and its leaders for war crimes is not a criticism of judaism or genuine semitic race. Your braying accusations of anti-semitism no longer have any affect/effect, as the entire world understands that plump and aggressive northern European converts are not "semites" by any stretch of imagination. Palestinians and Sephardim, those brown folks who clean Israel's bathrooms, should they be so lucky, are the only semites in white-only Israel.

If Israel shows greater flexibility, it can still influence the post-nuclear deal agenda ; If Israel digs in its heels, it will increasingly become a liability rather than a strategic asset to the U.S.

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